EASTERN
VAL OFFICE
Any further communication is addressed to:
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, (MARINE DEPARTMENT).
And the following letter and number should be quoted:
M/19788
Telegraphic Address.
BOARD TRADE MARINE,
LONDON.
Sir,
36735
CO
56945 241
MARINE DEPARTMENT,
ENOR OCT 04
7, WHITEHALL GARDENS,
LONDON, S.W.
By post
Pressing
27th October, 1904.
I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 25th instant, forwarding a
copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong with regard to
the refusal of the Steamship "Bawtry" to proceed to Vladivostock
with a cargo of coal.
In reply, I am to state, for the information of Mr
Secretary Lyttelton that the Board have not asked the Law
Officers of the Crown to express an opinion on the legal points
raised in the case of the S.S. "Inkum", but I am to forward
herewith copies of correspondence with the Foreign Office as
marked in the margin from which it will be seen that when Sir
C. Macdonald asked for advice on similar cases arising in the
Far East, the Board suggested, for the consideration of the
Marquess of Lansdowne, that a case should be submitted for
the opinion of the Law Officers.
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.